Recently, DZone MVB Cedric Beust unveiled JCommander, a tool he developed that takes away the manual labor of command line parsing. Just six days after posting his announcement for JCommander 1.0, he’s already got an expanded 1.1 version out. New features include simple internationalization, type converters, and password parameters.

Apparently the Ubuntu folks have started putting some weight behind their recommendations for switching to the “OpenJDK.” Fortunately, the official, “proprietary” Java is still available through another Ubuntu repository.